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Corruption and Built App Crashes

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Subject: Corruption and Built App Crashes
From: <jcox at prairienet dot org>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 02:55:41 -0600
> Here's another fun item:
> 
> Project has app class.
> 
> App class has an exception handler in the UnhandledException event.
> 
> Yet the built application unexpected quits when the user opens the prefs
> window.  There isn't a single peep out of the error handler.  I have
> extremely extensive error checking in every class, method, control, window,
> etc.  I subclass my own errors and add properties for which class, method,
> and other information.  There are options for debug messages, logging, error
> messages, logging, etc.  It's worked very well.  I have (until now) never
> had a built application fail without me knowing exactly when, where and why.
> 
> Why would a built app just die like this?  It runs completely fine in the
> IDE, and I'm not getting any exceptions of any type there.  My log files
> show all the classes instantiating correctly, the methods being called
> correctly etc.  Yet the built application's log file doesn't have a single
> entry (outside of the header line that gets written on the file's creation).
> 
> Am I alone on these items or are other people experiencing them as well?
> 
> Mark



I just recently got a report that my app (built with 4.0.1) was crashing on
an OS X system (10.1.2) with a NilObjectException during the launch.  But it
runs fine on other 10.1.2 systems.  I also have an UnhandledException event
set up, yet it did not catch this.  Maybe I have it set up wrong.

-Jason




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